EastEnders and Coronation Street New Year plots spark fans’ outrage

EastEnders and
Coronation Street both came under fire by angry viewers after their controversial New Year plots led to huge outrage.

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Chilling scenes showing a cot death in EastEnders and a raunchy lesbian kiss in Corrie proved too much for some fans to handle as thousands complained that the storylines portrayed were inappropriate for New Years family viewing.

The BBC reportedly received over two thousands complaints as fans of the Walford-based soap watched a distraught Ronnie Mitchell , played by Samantha Womack , swap her newborn baby , who had fallen victim to cot death, with fellow new mum Kat Moon’s baby.

According toThe Sun, the broadcasters were swamped with disgusted viewers accusing bosses of portraying mums who lose babies to cot death as being criminals . And fans took to internet forums to air their disgust slamming the BBC programme for crossing the line in a bid to boost ratings.

One angry viewer wrote: ‘I just think it’s a bit sick to base your top programme’s New Year blockbuster storyline around a cot death and subsequent snatching!! How festive.’

While another disgruntled fan wrote: ‘I cannot believe that the writers would do this to Ronnie – after everything she has gone through. Having been an avid EastEnders fan for years, I will no longer watch it.’

But executive producer Bryan Kirkwood, has stuck up for his show insisting they took every precaution needed before running with the sensitive storyline.

‘We appreciate this is a challenging storyline and have taken care to ensure viewers were aware of the content in advance of transmission.

‘We also provided actionline numbers at the end of each show, offering advice and support to those affected by the issues.’

Rival soap Corrie also fell victim to hordes of complaints as fans raged it was ‘glamorising’ homosexuality with a steamy lesbian kiss between teenage lovers Rosie Webster and Sian Powers, played by Brooke Vincent and Sacha Parkinson.

The storyline sees the pair embrace in a passionate snog in bed which viewers deemed as being too much for ‘impressionable’ young fans of the show with one viewer writing on an internet forum: ‘I just feel that they are trying to use two pretty teenagers, that young girls will look up to, to glamourise lesbianism.’